Are men smarter than women? Global Trivial Pursuit experiment reignites battle of the sexes

As competitive families around the world will attest, a nice leisurely game of Trivial Pursuit at Christmas can quickly descend into a heated contest.

Now Hasbro, the company behind the popular board game, has pitted men against women in an experiment to see just who is smart in the ultimate battle of the sexes.

'Trivial Pursuit wanted to conduct an experiment to see if trivia can answer the age-old question,' said Senior Brand Manager Hayden West.

'We're not taking sides, just providing the platform to watch this battle play out. Can you afford not to take part?'

Men vs women: Who will top the trivia tree? Answer questions correctly to earn points for your team

Anyone can particpate by logging on to www.trivialpursuitexperiment.com - just enter your sex, your online moniker and off you go.

Each time you get a question correct you gain a point for your team. The website tracks the number of unique users and keeps a running tally of the scores, which are displayed at the top of the page and currently men and women are neck and neck.

While some questions require good general knowledge others may require some clever guesswork. Did you know for instance that coconuts kill more people than sharks every year? Or that 200 starts are born every second?

And those who are thinking of attempting to sabotage the opposing team should beware.

Spokesman Jack Rigby said: 'You could go online and pretend to be a dim member
of the opposition, but this will do nothing to the results as points
don't get taken away for wrong answers, they only rise with the correct ones.

'Time spent answering incorrectly for the opposition is merely time wasted which could be
used answering correctly for your own team!'

The experiment will finish on December 9 when the question of who is the smartest sex will be finally answered once and for all.

The experiment is celebrating the launch of Trivial Pursuit Team - Hasbro's latest edition of their popular board game. It is on sale now for £24.99

Traditional board games go virtual...

MONOPOLY: www.monopolycitystreets.com

Players can buy any street in the world and construct everything from castles to rubbish dumps in Monopoly City Streets.

The game is a link up between toy maker's Hasbro and Google Maps and uses Google's street mapping technology. Each new player is given three million credits to build their empire. Hours of pointless fun.

Monopoly have teamed up with Google to create a global version of the money-making game. You can buy your own street with virtual cash

CLUEDO: www.hasbro.com/clue/content/virtual-mansion/index.html

Super sleuths can try and work out who committed a mysterious murder in the virtual mansion. Log clues and make notes of your suspicions as you go. When you think you've solved the crime make your accusations.